A label is only read where a reader stands.

So the first question in an RFID project is not about labels. It is about where items pass, because those are the only places a reader can notice them.

Fixed readers at doors and docks
Handheld scanners
Readers on vehicles
One record for all three

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Three kinds of reader.

At doors and docks

A fixed reader watches an opening. Items carried or driven through it are read as they pass, without anybody stopping to scan them.

In the hand

A handheld scanner goes to the items instead: along a rack, around a storeroom, through a cage. It is how a count is taken.

On a vehicle

A reader fitted to a vehicle reads the labelled items loaded on it, while the platform follows the vehicle itself by GPS.

What each read becomes.

Whichever reader makes it, a read ends up in the same place: a record of where and when an item was read, by which reader, and how confident the reading is. InSight RFID keeps each one as evidence.

Kept together, those records give an item a history made of sightings: read at a dock in the morning, read on a vehicle that afternoon, read at another door the next day. Nothing in that history is assumed. Where no reader noticed the item, the history simply has a gap.

Readers follow the process, not the floor plan.

An indoor mesh is laid out to cover a building. Readers are placed on a different principle: at the points where your client already checks goods in, counts them or sends them out. An RFID project is therefore a list of doors, docks, counts and vehicles, and of what should be recorded at each.

Where goods come in
Where goods are counted
Where goods go out

About readers.

Does each door need a reader?

No. A reader belongs where a read would settle a question: goods coming in, goods going out, or a count. Items are not followed between those points.

Who decides where the readers go?

The process does. Describe where your client receives, counts and dispatches, and that description is the starting point of an early-access conversation.

Are the vehicles tracked as well?

Yes, by GPS, on the same platform. Vehicle tracking is what Trackerserver does first; RFID adds a record of the labelled items.

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Ask about RFID for your clients.

Tell us what your client wants recorded item by item, and where those items pass. We answer with where InSight RFID stands, whether early access suits the job, and what the rest of the platform would add.